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Floating cutter bar for uneven ground

The 600F header with the floating cutterbar runs faster and cuts cleaner on uneven ground for reduced losses in down or tangled crops. The 600F is available from 6.10 m up to 10.70 m. While the design of the frame, drives, auger and stainless steel feed plates is similar to the 600R the flex technology completely different. It is not just a converted grain header with added flexibility on the cutterbar. The whole header is the result of decades of know how in soy bea and peas.

Features

Features

HydraFlex™ float system improves operator control

The HydraFlex system hydraulically controls the float of the cutterbar by the simple turn of a knob in the cab. This provides exceptional cutterbar flexibility throughout the entire working pressure range. Higher ground speeds can be accomplished with HydraFlex, compared to the conventional float systems.

Feature benefit:

Float arms, with hydraulic cylinders at every other channel, have replaced the mechanical linkage. These cylinders provide the cutterbar with the ability to float over uneven ground conditions, with improved operator control.

The platform HydraFlex system with an accumulator maintains a constant ground pressure over changing ground conditions. Manual mode is for locking out the cutterbar in the rigid mode.

Float arms

Hydraulic cylinders at every channel

Functionality:

In automatic mode, the operator merely adjusts to a desired cutterbar ground pressure, and the system maintains this setting. If a different set point is desired, the operator simply adjusts the encoder on the armrest board, and an updated cutterbar float pressure reading is displayed on the cornerpost display. To make the cutterbar heavy to the ground for increased ground following in uneven terrain simply decrease the cutterbar pressure. If soil pushing occurs, simply make the cutterbar pressure to the ground lighter by increasing the cutterbar pressure.

Epicyclic knife drive increases drive capacity

The heavy-duty epicyclic knife drive

Feature benefit:

Provides high level of reliability and durability

Minimizes vibration

Fast, efficient cutting action for higher harvesting speeds

Epicyclic knife-drive gearbox

Functionality:

89-mm (3.5-in.) knife stroke adds a more efficient cutting action. The increased stroke improves the cutterbar's ability to cut even in adverse conditions, such as large-stemmed crops or weeds, without plugging.

Knife speed is 520 rpm

In-line versus wobble-geometry knife head oscillates in a straight line and not through a radius like the previous knife drive, increasing the knife head's reliability

Knife head and gearbox attachment is improved. Two capscrews can be easily removed if any service to the knife is required.